metapode

See also: métapode

English

Etymology

New Latin metapodium, from Ancient Greek.

Noun

metapode (plural metapodes)

  1. (zoology) The posterior division of the foot in the Gastropoda and Pteropoda.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for metapode in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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